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To: Neocon who wrote (45363)	3/8/2002 1:10:38 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I agree it's a closer call. But if you content that posting about ideas a person has put into the public arena for discussion is posting about the person, you're in a slippery slope. I view posting "about" a person as one of seveal things. Posting with direct attribution to them, or in direct response to them. Posting any personal information, even if it has already been disclosed publicly. In the case of the hypothetical, if I posted "I disagree with Poet; I think ... " that would clearly be posting about her. But just posting "I don't think that..." is, IMO, not posting about her, but just about ideas that she has chosen to put into the public marketplace of ideas. Once we say that posting about ideas is posting about a person, the lines get awfully fuzzy. JC Dithers sidestepped this by leaving it up to the court of public opinion, which I think is maybe the best way, at least for starters, and see how it goes. I'm not sure any of this is going to be an actual problem. I just don't want to set anybody up for failure or ongoing controversy about whether somebody is or isn't complying with an agreement.

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